A professional who tends equipment to fill tanks with hot wort and permit solids to settle before transferring to cooling machine. Respnsibilities include:

• Opens valves to admit hot wort from hop strainer to storage tank.
• Taps (drains) filled tanks after solids have settled.
• Turns valves, sets float line, and pulls bottom plug to drain wort into cooling line.
• Climbs into empty settling tank to scrub inside and remove residue, using hose and brush.
• May read gauges and record amount of hot wort received in tanks.